LIFE Project: Promoting local commitment to the transition to clean energy in rural areas through energy communities
- Type Project
- Status In progress
- Execution 2023 -2027
- Assigned Budget 1.578.130,00 €
- Scope Europeo
- Autonomous community Galicia
- Main source of financing LIFE
- Project website Web del proyecto
The EC4RURAL project aims to enable citizens and local stakeholders to participate in or benefit from Rural Energy Communities-led CET processes through the production of renewable energy and the sale of surplus energy.
The central idea of EC4RURAL is to change the paradigm of local relations to promote Energy Communities in rural municipalities, which in Europe, despite their wealth in resources, are at a disadvantage: rural decline, less access to basic services and employment, which, in many cases, translates into energy poverty for their inhabitants derived from the current high energy prices. EC4RURAL will also contribute to rural development within the framework of the new Common Agricultural Policy, as well as the European Rural Pact and the Territorial Cohesion Policy.
- Implement this new paradigm shift through two pilot projects in Estonia and Spain, with a total of 34 case studies in different rural municipalities.
- To sow the seeds of replicability, not only in the participating regions but also at the European level, through communication, dissemination, and exploitation of the network of external partners and collaborators.
EC4RURAL will help deepen and transform relationships between local and regional authorities and Local Action Groups to contribute to the Clean Energy Transition (CET) in Europe, while ensuring the participation of all stakeholders and ensuring they are not left behind.
- Coordinator/entity name: Xavier Simon
Postal address: G CAMPUS LAGOAS MARCOSENDE, 36310, VIGO PONTEVEDRA
EC4RURAL's action, therefore, is focused on changes in consumer and business behavior, facilitating greater dialogue and joint investment between public and private stakeholders (unattainable on an individual level), as established by the European Green Deal.
- UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
- ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE LEADER POURLE DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL
- UNION DE COOPERATIVAS ESPAZOCOOP
- FUNDACION JUANA DE VEGA
- FEDERACION GALEGA DE MUNICIPIOS E PROVINCIAS
- SAPIENS ENERGIA COOP V
- EESTI LEADER LIIT
- MITTETULUNDUSUHING TARTU REGIOONI ENERGIAAGENTUUR
- EESTI LINNADE JA VALDADE LIIT
- TARTU ULIKOOL
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